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dimensions 6.4 x 6.8 x 0.5 cm
In suaka nade-kaku-gata, with beautiful, silver hira-zogan depiction and shishiai-bori (and ke-bori). The omote featuring a deep kebori engraving worked as the roughness of the trunk, and a lighter and more delicate engraving for the branches. The flowers and buds are made of hira-zogan, a coloured inlay remaining at the surface level, made of finished silver. The 'hato' pigeon is made of shakudo with the same technique and featuring a gold eye. On the ura a shakudo 'karasu' crow is depicted, with the same technique, on the branches of an old dying tree around which the tendrils of a climbing plant are twining. Since 1500, the Goto school has been one of the most important school in Japan with its many different branches and artists. The manufacturer of this beautiful tsuba belongs to that branch referring to the naturalistic painting of Funada Ikkin. We are in the mid 19th century. The meaning of the tsuba, given the deep contrast between the two sides, might be the representation of spring and summer, or the contrast between a good future, represented by the sweet pigeon, and a bad past, represented by the crow. Provenance: Behrens Collection Christie's sale 16/06/1999.
In suaka nade-kaku-gata, with beautiful, silver hira-zogan depiction and shishiai-bori (and ke-bori). The omote featuring a deep kebori engraving worked as the roughness of the trunk, and a lighter and more delicate engraving for the branches. The flowers and buds are made of hira-zogan, a coloured inlay remaining at the surface level, made of finished silver. The 'hato' pigeon is made of shakudo with the same technique and featuring a gold eye. On the ura a shakudo 'karasu' crow is depicted, with the same technique, on the branches of an old dying tree around which the tendrils of a climbing plant are twining. Since 1500, the Goto school has been one of the most important school in Japan with its many different branches and artists. The manufacturer of this beautiful tsuba belongs to that branch referring to the naturalistic painting of Funada Ikkin. We are in the mid 19th century. The meaning of the tsuba, given the deep contrast between the two sides, might be the representation of spring and summer, or the contrast between a good future, represented by the sweet pigeon, and a bad past, represented by the crow. Provenance: Behrens Collection Christie's sale 16/06/1999.